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The agitating Madhesi parties have been blockading the Nepal-India border crossing points for about two months, obstructing movement of cargo vehicles creating acute shortage of fuel, medicines and other essential goods.

This is the beginning of a new era that has to carry us toward the opportunities we need to grow and progress: Macri.

In Paris, Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said a chemical or biological attack "was among the risks" faced but that all possible precautions had been taken.

Madhesi groups living along the Indo-Nepal border protests against Nepal's republican charter for not accommodating their interests.

Officials on Saturday said that several weapons were discovered during the search of the home of one of three people arrested in connection with the Paris attacks, but said no explosives were found.

It was the second time that warships have been used since the start of the bombing campaign on September 30.

Xinjiang, the homeland of the mostly Muslim Uighur ethnic minority, is often hit by unrest and China has launched a police crackdown on separatist "terrorists" it says are behind the violence.

Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a 28-year-old Belgian militant, who had boasted of mounting attacks in Europe for the Islamic State, was accused of orchestrating the coordinated bombings and shootings.

The latest edition of its official online magazine Dabiq said IS had initially planned to down a plane belonging to a country from the US-led coalition targeting militants in Iraq and Syria.

The stamp of 2.80 Turkish lira bears a picture of Modi and the Indian national flag.

Hollande will also meet US counterpart Barack Obama in Washington on November 24 to discuss the fight against the Islamic State group.

Traces of foreign-made explosive had been found on fragments of the downed plane and on passengers' personal belongings.

NASA spokesman Dan Huot said the crew has been operating normally and is in no danger.

A major police raid in the impoverished immigrant district of Molenbeek in western Brussels targeting Salah ended without any arrests on Monday.

The outbound investment (ODI) so far in 2015 has covered 5,553 overseas-based companies in 152 countries and regions, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said.

62-year-old Imran's marriage to Reham was his second after his first marriage with English heiress Jemima Goldsmith for nine years ended in divorce in June, 2004.